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Wheeling, WV-OH MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

11,773 33,324 1,003 33,163 708 73,201
Evangelical Protestant Mainline Protestant Orthodox Catholic Other Unclaimed

Congregational "adherents" include all full members, their children, and others who regularly attend services. The historically African American denominations are not included in the 2000 congregation and membership totals. Many are also missing in 1990 and most historically African American denominations are missing in the 1980 reports.
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Reports


Religious Bodies Theology Congregations Adherents Adherence Rate
Catholic Church Catholic 40 36,247 195.3
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 5 743 4.0
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio) Evangelical Protestant 1 41 0.2
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 3 327 1.8
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 16 3,614 19.5
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 6 1,323 7.1
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 3 291 1.6
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 9 1,088 5.9
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 23 3,145 17.0
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 3 727 3.9
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 1 123 0.7
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 3 587 3.2
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 4 2,670 14.4
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 12 3,919 21.1
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 8 2,266 12.2
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 14 5,623 30.3
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 3 1,046 5.6
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 37 10,442 56.3
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 5 1,307 7.0
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 82 21,410 115.4
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 1 332 1.8
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 1 354 1.9
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 2 70 0.4
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 282 97,695  

The population of these counties (or equivalent) in 1980 was 185,566. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (97,695) include 52.6% of the total population in 1980.

Source

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and includes statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

The adherence rate provides the number of adherents of a particular group per 1,000 population. For example, in 2000 the Episcopal Church had an adherence rate of approximately 8 (8.1) in Autauga County, Alabama. This means that 8 out of every 1,000 people in Autauga county are Episcopalian.